I think the big draw of GAE over EC2 is the autoscaling, usage based pricing and access to BigTable (although I've not seen a comparison to SimpleDB yet either).
I think EC2's biggest flaw so far is the inability to connect multiple instances to a single EBS block (where you would presumably have your database). This limits the scalability of any one database to a single, extra large instance. Maybe Amazon will change this in the future that said, we are using GAE as the front end/storage/query engine and EC2 for backend processing work (when needed). using the two "Cloud" types in tandem has some benefits (although I would love both a Queue and background processing in GAE!) cheers brian On Nov 5, 1:41 am, sal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It seems there are images you can choose for EC2 which automatically > > > load balance/scale when you boot new instances... > > > Are you sure about that ? I would be glad if you provide some > > reference. > > http://highscalability.com/scalr-open-source-auto-scaling-hosting-ama... > > "..Scalr is a fully redundant, self-curing and self-scaling hosting > environment utilizing Amazon's EC2. " > > "... The health of the farm is continuously monitored and maintained. > When the Load Average on a type of node goes above a configurable > threshold a new node is inserted into the farm to spread the load and > the cluster is reconfigured. When a node crashes a new machine of that > type is inserted into the farm to replace it. ... > > ... New machines of this type will be brought online to meet current > levels and the old machines are terminated one by one. ..." > > Its also a project hosted on google code ironically enough. > > http://code.google.com/p/scalr/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
